Christianity in Astyria
JESUS, EVERYONE. JESUS EVERYWHERE.
History
Arrival in Hesperidesia
In 64 AD, the Great Fire of Rome caused the Christian population of the city to become the targets of horrific attacks, having become the scapegoats of the Emperor Nero. In 66AD, after two years of intense persecution, a large fleet of refugees took to the the seas, hoping to find a safe haven beyond the pillars of Hercules. After two years at sea, stopping sporadically to pick up fresh food and water, the refugee fleet finally made landfall in a a land they proclaimed as "Hesperidesia", or the Land of the Hesperides. the initial landing was made around the area of modern day Paradise City, and it is here and in the surrounding areas that some of the oldest Roman ruins can be found.
Westward expansion
Arrival in the Scottopian Isles
Southern Teudallum
Christianity arrived in Cadenza before it reached the rest of Trellin, brought by Roman refugees from Hesperidesia in 69 or 70 AD. The new religion was popular among the Cadenzans, and it became the island's majority religion no later than 85 AD. Christian missionaries from Cadenza, such as Saint Misrav, journeyed to Kur'zhet and the Trellinese and Hyseran mainland over the following centuries. In 122, the first Trellinese monarch - King Duder - converted to Christianity, though the faith did not achieve the same traction it had in Cadenza.
In 308, Christian missionaries arrived at the court of Duke Josev of Harimat. Although many of his people had already converted, it was his first encounter with missionaries, and they read him passages from the Gospels as they attempted to convert him. When they came to Matthew 27:57, Josev reportedly sat in stunned silence at the introduction of Joseph of Arimathea. The duke was struck by the similarity of his own name that of his duchy to this biblical figure and, inspired, he agreed to be baptised.